Content Standard: K. SCIENTIFIC REASONING
Standard: Students will learn to formulate and justify ideas and to make informed decisions.
Common Assessment(s):

Performance Indicators Students will be able to:	Essential Elements (Specific grade level learning objectives)			Suggested Performance Activities	Suggested Classroom Assessments	Vocabulary
1. Examine the ways people form generalizations.	Understand that people form generalization through life experiences			On-going in all areas	Students will examine the ways people form generalizations through discussion and teacher direction.	analyze argument construct generalization identify stereotypes proving hypothesis support reasoning generalization
2. Identify exceptions to proposed generalizations	Understand that because of varied life experiences there are exceptions to generalization			On-going	Students will identify exceptions to proposed generalizations through discussion and teacher direction.	generalization exceptions
6. Support reasoning by using a variety of evidence.	Identify similarities and differences Classifying			See E4.,E7 F2., F5.	Students will support their reasoning in class discussion an journal responses. Maine LAD Tasks Changes in Plant Life	evidence
7. Show that proving a hypothesis false is easier than proving it true, and explain why.	It takes many samples to prove a hypothesis is true, but it only takes one exception to prove it is false.			Quick Labs throughout the text, Science for Life and Living: Energy and Investigation, can be used to practice this skill,	.	hypothesis